Le Pavé

We stopped here for a late lunch/snack after a brief visit to the nearby Pompidou. This area is flush with restaurant options and, generally speaking as folks with particular dietary interests (1 vegetarian and 1 gluten free) who like to do tons of research before stopping into a place to eat, we tossed aside that sensibility and thought, can any place in Paris be that bad? Well, it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't great either. I had a cheese plate. My general fantasy in life is to eat cheese in Paris and in this case the cheeses themselves were a bit of a let down. Not as flavorful as we wanted. Not our favorite cheeses and not much of an assortment. My wife enjoyed the plate of assorted vegetables, or salad she got, everything was fresh. The place was fairly empty when we arrived and we we asked to sit in the non-smoking section. They accommodated, but then our server, on her break, set just on the other side of the barrier from where we were seated and proceeded to smoke which had us wanting to leave as soon as possible. We wouldn't rush back here and with so many options next door and in every direction we don't think we'd have to.